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Definition of Subterfuges
1. subterfuge [n] - See also: subterfuge
Lexicographical Neighbors of Subterfuges
Literary usage of Subterfuges
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Law of Nations; Or, Principles of the Law of Nature: Applied to the by Emer de Vattel (1854)
"True CHAI>' xv' diplomatic skill consists in guarding against imposition, not in
practising it. subterfuges in a treaty are not less contrary to good faith. ..."
2. The Harleian Miscellany: Or, A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and by William Oldys, John Malham (1810)
"TRE REBELS CATECHISM: Composed in an easy and familiar way, to let them see the
heinousness of their offence, the weakness of their strongest subterfuges, ..."
3. Turkistan: Notes of a Journey in Russian Turkistan, Khokand, Bukhara, and Kuldja by Eugene Schuyler, Vasilīĭ Vasilʹevich Grigorʹev (1876)
"... and Leather—The Kirghiz bazaar—Caravanserais—Hindoos—Money-lending and its
subterfuges—Pottery—Embroidery—Cotton goods—S,lk and silk culture—Legendary ..."
4. William Lloyd Garrison and His Times: Or, Sketches of the Anti-slavery by Oliver Johnson, John Greenleaf Whittier (1881)
"WHEREIN THE CRITICISMS OF TWO RELIGIOUS JOURNALS ARK WEIGHED AND CONSIDERED, THE
subterfuges RESORTED TO IN DEFENCE OF A RECREANT MINISTRY AND CHURCH ..."
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